ENGLISH TOPIARY GARDENS celebrates this diverse art with examples ranging from mazes to Egyptian temples, from peacocks to a locomotive engine, from rabbits to a leafy Nessie.

About the Author

Ethne Clarke is known worldwide as one of the foremost writers and lecturers on garden history, design and planting. She is the author of more than 15 books, including the literary award-winning Art of the Kitchen Garden. Born and raised in the United States, she lived and gardened in England for nearly 30 years. She is a Member of the Institute of Horticulture and is the Garden Editor of Traditional Home, the USA's top-selling design and decorating magazine. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa.

Prizes

* An illustrated compendium of topiary gardens - a particularly English obsession - from the formal to the bizarre. * Part of the long and successful Country Series - over 600,000 volumes sold * Over 130 full colour photographs * Special flapped paperback edition